Skype stats: 200 million average monthly connected users make 300 billion minutes of calls yearly, half those minutes on video, and half those minutes across international borders. People spend about half the time in Skype calls that people spend on Facebook. One in four international minutes are on Skype. [...]
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We have a new high: 30 million people logged into Skype at the same time. I’d guess this puts the number of active Skype users about 180 million, since most people turn off Skype at night and don’t log in every day. Dialtone is one measure of the size and capacity of a [...] The big red line shows billions of minutes of phone calls made the traditional way: phone to phone over the pubic phone networks. 413 billion minutes this year. The big blue line shows Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut calls, 102 billion minutes this year. Big deal? No and yes. No, since nearly all regular calls [...] Skype saw 25 million users connected to the network on Monday. This is a new high watermark in the history of Skype’s dialtone. Contrast this with Tencent‘s QQ: "118.7 million peak simultaneous online IM user accounts" as of 30 Sep 2010, more than 400% of Skype’s dialtone. Let’s look at Skype’s dialtone over time. [...] Skype‘s rate of growth is slowing, says Hudson Barton, who tracks Skype user long term activity. "At this point in ’09, Skype ‘Real Users’ was up 18% YTD. This year it is up 13%." Barton adjusts the number of Skype accounts logged in at each moment for regions and common behavior, like logging in during [...] From a Skype.com blog post: "About 34% of Skype calls are now video calls, and this rises to around 50% at peak times." This is a huge change in consumer behavior. No surprise Skype will charge for group video calling. [...] |
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